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the jetties layer, finally we saw the thicker
limestone on the N.E. side of Zenis not far away
from our Tetrapod locality. Here the eng.
was at least ten feet thick and at the top a
mass of closely compacted angular or rather sub-
rounded pieces mixing of several varieties of limestone
but also boulders of a hummock thin bedded shale
dorworth grey, small & quartzite with desert like rounded sandps
and a classic craize sandstone. These latter pieces
can have come from the jetties, but saw none of
the underlying Laurentian igneous granite-gneiss.
At the base the boulders all above layer some
two feet long, and at times we met thick and run a
four layer. All of these pieces had the corners
rounded but none could have been transported
far. It would therefore seem as if during the
deposition of the Zenis the sea floor had been
folded with parts rising into subaerial ridges. It
was then these ridges that furnished the boulders
of therelies as harder beds to make up the
limestone.